Centrino Duo Mobile Platform Review. Page 13

Intel Centrino Duo platform has come out and the stores started offering notebooks with dual-core architecture. However, will the dual-core mobile architecture be as successful as in the desktop and server segments? This article dedicated to the new Intel Centrino Duo platform will reveal all the differences and improvements compared with the previous generation Centrino systems.

3D Games

Mobile computers with the graphics core integrated into the chipset will hardly ever be used for gaming. However, we still decided to test our notebooks in Quake III and Doom 3, because the benchmarks from these gaming applications are fairly often used to estimate the platforms performance.

Although these old games do not use multi-threading, Centrino Duo platform demonstrated higher results. It owes this victory to faster integrated graphics core, of course.